As one story in this collection opens, a woman puts her daughter Ruth to sleep before proceeding to repeatedly think "Bang! Bang! Bang!" to describe her thoughts on Tom surviving a war. In that story, its protagonist sleeps with a man that leaves a record player behind which infuriates Silas when he discovers it. In a story that is often found in this collection, its protagonist wraps a white sheet around a gun and uses it to kill the informer Booker before she, Sue, and her son Johnny-Boy are brutally shot. Farmer (*) Mann tries to save his wife Lulu and her baby during a flood in another story in this collection. Al
As one story in this collection opens, a woman puts her daughter Ruth to sleep before proceeding to repeatedly think "Bang! Bang! Bang!" to describe her thoughts on Tom surviving a war. In that story, its protagonist sleeps with a man that leaves a record player behind which infuriates Silas when he discovers it. In a story that is often found in this collection, its protagonist wraps a white sheet around a gun and uses it to kill the informer Booker before she, Sue, and her son Johnny-Boy are brutally shot. Farmer (*) Mann tries to save his wife Lulu and her baby during a flood in another story in this collection. Although stories like "Bright and Morning Star" and "Fire and Cloud" provides a rationale for Communism in America, its essay "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" illustrate the racism of the 1930's. For 10 points, name this collection of short stories titled after the descendants of a Harriet Beecher Stowe character. [Ike]
As one story in this collection opens, a woman puts her daughter Ruth to sleep before proceeding to repeatedly think "Bang!
{Uncle Tom's Children}